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A N G E L IC A fylveftris.
Wild Angelica.
PENTANDRIA Dlgynia.
Gen. Char. Involucra general and partial. Fruit
roundifh, folid, with 3 wings on each fide. ■ Cal.
5 teeth. Flowers regular. Pet. incurved. Styles
reflexed.
Spec. Char. Leaflets equal, ovate, ferrated.
Syn. Angelicafylveftris. Limn. Sp. PI. 361. Sm. FI.
Brit. 3x1. Hudf. xi 8. With. 298. Hull. 62.
Relh. 112. Sibth. 96. Abbot. 61. Woodv.
Suppl. t. 265. Rail Syn. 208.
C o m m o n in watery places about the banks of rivers and
ditches, offer grounds, alder groves, &c. flowering in July,
when its tall purplifh-glaucous ftem, bearing large denfe
umbels on its divaricated branches, is feen riling above the
furrounding coarfe grafles, willow-herbs and water-mints,
among which the broad fpreading leaves of the Angelica are
no lefs confpicuous.
The root is perennial, large and flelhy. Stem round, fmooth,
branched, leafy. Leaves bipinnate, rather glaucous, compofed
of diftinft, ovate or elliptical, lharply ferrated leaflets, of
which the lowermoft lateral ones are often lobed or auricled.
Umbels of many rays, denfe, hemifphaerical . Involucrum of
1 or 2 very narrow lharp leaves; partial involucra of many
fimilar ones j all o f them downy as well as the ftalks.
Flowers regular, fmall, white or purplilh. Styles purple, ftiort
till after the flowers are faded, when they become reflexed.
Fruit fmall, fmooth. The general involucrum is often wanting.
This whole plant is aromatic, bitter and pungent; but the
garden Angelica is now generally preferred for medical purpofes,
and always for culinary ones. Both plants are eminently
ftomachic and carminative.